"For the record, General, there are 8,635 pieces of silk in the market today..."
When he heard Pei Hong, a military officer from Cangcao, reporting the total amount of market taxes collected today, Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked in shock: "How many?"
It's not that he has never seen money, let alone more than 8,000 pieces of silk, even more than 80,000...forget it, even one piece needs to be taken seriously, half a silk, half a strand, Heng Nian is struggling with material resources!
The commodity economy in the Southern Dynasties was developed and market transactions were frequent. Therefore, city tax was also an important part of the government's fiscal revenue. It was usually levied at 4% according to the transaction volume, that is, a transaction tax of 400 yen for a transaction volume of 10,000 yen, and the seller paid 300 yen.
One hundred dollars, the buyer gives one hundred dollars.
In addition, there are various types of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes collected around market transactions that come and go, depending on the social development at that time, government finances, and the moral bottom line of the rulers, etc. Each era is different.
Among the political powers in the Southern Dynasties, Xiao Bodhisattva's family had a relatively low moral bottom line, so the people were under heavy pressure from city taxes. Back then, Hou Jing only used one trick to exempt land rent from city taxes, and he attracted a large number of Huainan people to rebel. Nanliang
The importance of taxation can be seen clearly.
In the Northern Dynasties, especially the Western Wei Dynasty, the development of the commodity economy itself was very backward, so various commercial taxes were very few. It was not because Yuwentai had a high moral level, it was simply because they were not collected.
The Jingzhou Governor's Office is quite independent in its finances, and there is no need to follow Chinese or foreign laws for generating revenue. Because it is located at the junction of the north and the south, the commodity economy is also developing day by day, so the state government has also formulated a municipal tax quota, with a tax of one per hundred.
Compared with the system of the Southern Dynasties, it is naturally not that serious of exploitation.
More than 8,000 pieces of silk were taxed in one day, which means that the total transaction volume in the market during the whole day reached more than 800,000 pieces of silk! If it is a bulk trade, it goes without saying, but the main commercial markets in Jingzhou City
It mainly retails daily necessities, and it is simply unbelievable that the transaction volume can reach so much in one day.
"How much does the city tax usually collect every day?"
After Li Tai asked this question, Pei Hong was already prepared and hurriedly brought the city tax records from the past three months to the case.
Li Tai took the account book and looked through it briefly, and found that the city tax collected every day in three months ranged from a few hundred bolts of silk to two to three thousand bolts. Judging from the trend, it was gradually increasing.
Especially since November, the data has jumped more than twice every day, and today it has reached an unprecedented number of more than 8,000 pieces of silk.
Seeing this unusual data, Li Tai took a look at the commercial data in Jingzhou City.
There are more than 700 shops in the entire shopping mall, and there are more than 100 more shops than Xiangyang West Market. Although this data cannot be compared with the east and west cities of Chang'an in the heyday of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is already the entire Jianghan.
The largest market among them.
The products sold by so many shops are naturally diverse and of various types, ranging from daily necessities to rare treasures from the north and south.
Pei Hong continued: "According to the owner of the store in the city, most of the people who come to the market to buy goods are from Jiangling. They don't even choose to buy, but just scan and buy..."
Li Tai listened to Pei Hong's report and vaguely remembered something in his mind. While signaling Pei Hong to continue the report, he stood up and rummaged around in the bookcase next to the case, and finally found a letter from Li Yunxin, the governor of Yingzhou who was in charge of Shicheng.
Report.
This report was sent in the middle of the year. It was a request from the Jiangling Military Office to the General Administration to increase the annual mutual trade volume. Previously, Li Tai used the power of Keding Handong to ask for mutual trade with Jiangling, and purchased a large amount from Jiangling every year.
of raw materials.
At that time, Jiangling was still richer than Miobei. Although the turmoil in the lower reaches became more and more serious, the midstream area was still not affected too much. Therefore, Jiangling was not very active in the trade between the two sides, and still had to rely on Miobei.
Only with the deterrence of military force could they reluctantly fulfill this agreement.
But gradually, when Hou Jing's rebellious army entered the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiangling's enthusiasm for trading increased. It was necessary to raise supplies through trade and improve finances to develop armaments.
When the Jiangling Defense War ended and Wang Sengbian and other armies began to launch counterattacks downstream, Jiangling became more dependent on trade with Mianbei. Waiting until this year, they even took the initiative to propose increasing trade volume, and trade
When the forehead is doubled, it is nearly doubled.
This change in attitude is reflected in the fact that the industrial and agricultural production around Gangneung has also been severely damaged, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of commodities and a large amount of dissatisfaction.
Li Tai had not noticed this before, but now he saw many people from Jiangling coming to the city to buy goods, which directly caused the transaction volume in the city's market to surge. Only then did he realize that there was a lot of room for manipulation.
Thinking of Jiangling's turbulent situation and the people in the city who were short of food and clothing, Li Tai felt that he had the responsibility to help these people's lives get back on track.
Especially the Southern Dynasty aristocrats who fled from Jiankang to Jiangling before and after Hou Jing's rebellion was put down. They can't bear a little hardship, and they can't get tired of fine food and fine food. The material comforts that Jiangling can't provide them at the moment can only be found in Mianbei.
can be satisfied.
In line with the principle of happiness based on helping others, Li Tai wrote an order and sent it to Li Yunxin, the governor of Yingzhou who was in charge of the southern border, instructing him to strictly inspect the goods in transit, especially the goods transported from the territory of the General Manager's Office to Jiangling.
, as long as there are no certificates such as customs certificates or deeds, they will be seized and not released.
If you want to privately sweep cargo back to Gangneung and make huge profits, that's a dream! If you don't come to Laozi Pier and make some contribution to me, you won't even make a single profit!
In addition to strictly inspecting the transportation of private goods, he also formulated a rule that those who enjoy gold medal, silver medal and other guest treatment in Hongbin Tower can carry different quantities and more types of materials in their luggage.
General Li's friendship is very valuable and can be measured directly with real money. If you don't cherish it and don't fight for it, you are destined to not be able to make a living!
Those who have lived in Gangneung for a long time are fine. They themselves have sufficient assets to support their daily lives.
However, those who migrated from Jiankang to Jiangling had a bit of difficulty. Both their social status and economic conditions would suffer a very big decline. Not to mention others, even Yu Xin, the leader of the literary world, was taken care of by him in his early years.
Being ignored by my little boyfriend.
It is difficult for these people to obtain stable and considerable assets and income in Jiangling. Even if they can get the care of Liang Emperor Xiao Yi, they are only a few people after all. Most of the others have to face a difficult practical problem in life.
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Nowadays, Mianbei is rich in goods and materials, which is naturally very attractive to these people. Therefore, Li Tai took advantage of this without hesitation and continued to develop his eyes and ears among the people in Jiangling.
Just as Jiangling was facing internal and external troubles and Mianbei was prospering, the New Year arrived in the blink of an eye. Due to the depletion of river water, Xiao Ji, who led his troops on an eastward expedition and approached the mouth of the gorge, did not launch a large-scale offensive, but instead built a city along the river.
Advance step by step.
As for Wang Lin's tribe in Xiangzhou, it was much more lively. After consolidating the victory in Xiangzhou, they immediately marched north to besiege Baling. This was the city where Wang Sengbian had previously occupied and successfully defeated Hou Jing's rebel army.
Now, it has lived up to its previous good luck and was defeated by Wang Lin's rebels, allowing the rebels to take direct control of Baling, and the road to the west to Jiangling is now open.
Faced with this incident, the new Liang Emperor Xiao Yi was also shocked. On the one hand, he ordered the leader Hu Sengyou to lead his troops to refuse, and on the other hand, he sent envoys to ask for help from the Western Wei Dynasty, and finally made that touching request.
, that is, asking the Western Wei Dynasty to send troops to attack Shu.
Of course, even without Xiao Yi's request, the Western Wei Dynasty would not give up the military operation that had been in operation for a long time and was about to begin.
However, just before the Western Wei Dynasty was about to launch its plan to conquer Shu, their prominent emperor Yuan Qin also began to act like a monster. He directly ordered the dismissal of Prime Minister Yuwentai and the post of Daxingtai, and only retained the honorary title of Grand Master and the title of Governor of China and foreign countries.
military.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the scope of Bafu's power. Even Li Tai, who was far away in Jingzhou, quickly sent an envoy to Huazhou to ask Yuwentai whether he would be required to lead an army in this situation.